Building and Managing a Cloud Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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Metering and Chargeback

hargeback is a concept that has been widely employed in the past. Businesses such as public utilities and wireless phone companies have invested heavily in pay-for-use models for charging customers based on their usage and consumption of a service. As users become keenly aware of the amount of resources they are consuming and the costs associated with that usage, they become more efficient and more selective, thus lowering wastage and overall costs.

In enterprise computing, it was common for IT to centrally ...